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LOYOLA MAROON Vol. XLIV Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Friday, March 8, 1968 No. 18 Ribicoff keynotes urban conference By STEVE VAKAS 'Cry of a city. The New Orleans Consortium will begin its Conference on Urban Affairs Sunday, March 31, when Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) is scheduled to deliver the key address in the Loyola Field House at 8 p.m. Entitled "Cry of the City," the conference is centered around urban problems in New Orleans. A facultystudent committee of the consortium, which represents Loyola, Xavier University and Dominican College, has also scheduled three other speakers. Saul Aulinsky (April 1,2), Vance Packard (April 3), and Flip Wilson (April 9) will also conduct seminars. Ribicoff is known for his constant battle for human rights. Since he entered the senate three years ago he has promoted the Ribicoff-Mills Mental Retardation Act, Ribicoff Pesticide Control Act and the Ribicoff- Roberts Clean Air Act. Ribicoff currently serves on the Senate Finance Committee and the Government Operations Committee. He was recently appointed chairman on the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization. For his distinguished record of public service, Ribicoff has been awarded honorary degrees from nineteen universities in the U.S. He graduated cum laude from the University of Chicago's School of Law. Aulinsky is a popular sociologist and criminologist at the University of Chicago. Helen Mervis, director of the consortium, says Aulinsky is an "urban organizer" who helps people in poverty areas form "pressure groups" such as Chicago's "Back of the Yard" program. Aulinsky will appear in Danna Center on Monday, April 1, in rooms 2D & E to conduct a seminar at 2:30 p.m. on target areas of poverty in New Orleans. On Wednesday, April 3, Vance Packard will appear at Dominican's gym to deliver his speech. Author of several best sellers, among his works are The Status Seekers, A former newspaperman and magazine writer, Packard received his master's degree from the graduate division of Columbia University's School of Journalism. Wilson is a veteran comedian who achieved fame after six appearances on NBC-TV's "Tonight" show. According to Mrs. Mervis, Wilson was contracted to appear for the consortium because he "relates to urban problems in a satirical way." Students from Loyola may attend the speeches by presenting their I.D. cards. Admission for non-consortium students and adults is $2.00. SEN. ABRAHAM RIBICOFF To speak on urban problems Mass media replaced social novel Aldridgc says John Aldridge, prominent essayist and novel critic addressed a group of Loyola students last week on "The Lives We Lead and the Books We Read: A Study of the Contemporary Novel." Aldridge spoke at length about the change the novel has undergone in the past few decades. "The novel in the last 30 years or so has ceased to be a form that has educated readers in new experiences," Aldridge said. Mass media, he said, make actual experience more and more difficult to get at. Television and especially films, are becoming substitutes for real life experiences. Thus, he continued, the writer loses the realities and experiences in society which used to be his material. "American novelists can no longer write social novels as the writers of the 1920's and 30's did," Aldridge said. Replacing the socially oriented novels of Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, he said, are the "black humor" writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote "Lolita," and Joseph Heller, author of "Catch 22." The move from the cities to the suburbs and dependence on the mass media are two of the factors Aldridge cited as being responsible for the change. "In the new suburban society," Aldridge said, "which is especially prevalent in the North and Midwest, people are becoming uniform. "So much of the vitality of human life has been concealed behind the facade of suburbia,"he continued. Resulting from this change we ultimately have a "homogenized society," Aldridge said. And within this society it becomes difficult for a writer to extract material for a novel. According to Aldridge, novelists must turn elsewhere for ways to deal with society, and the result has been the black humor novel in which society is made grotesque and social criticism is oblique. Possibly, Aldridge concluded, the black humor novel will help penetrate the fog created by the mass media and become more like the social novel.JOHN ALDRIDGE Evaluates contemporary novel Administration not surprised by arrests; watchful for developments in drug usage By FERREL GUILLORY The recent arrests of Loyola students on marijuana charges came as no surprise to university officials and to many students. However, university officials have expressed deep concern over the incidents. They are staying as informed as possible on all the cases and they are keeping a wary eye on the dormitories for any marijuana users. Mainly, university officials are keeping quiet. And so are most students. Since the recent arrests, questions concerning the incidents are received with little comment or no comment at all. But conversations with university officials and some students give some insight into the situation on campus. University officials feel that student marijuana users were more prevalent in the first semester than they are now. They attribute this to two reasons: the arrests have frightened many away from the drug and some of the ones arrested are suspected to be primary sellers. There were reports in the first semester of marijuana parties held by students in Audubon Park. Estimates of the number of students now using marijuana from university officials and students run from as high as 40 or SO to as little as a half dozen. University officials are inclined to put those using marijuana in three categories: 1) those using the drug for "kicks"; 2) those taking marijuana because they are depressed or having problems with school work; 3) those using it because they have become habituated to it. However, these officials feel that the amount of marijuana used on campus presently is not serious. One university official said that the general school policy for dismissing students who have been charged with a crime such as using marijuana is to take action once an indictment has been handed down. However, in one series of cases recently, the university dismissed a group of students immediately after they were arrested on marijuana charges. The university officials explained that they had sufficient evidence to warrant the action. The university handbook, the L Book which is an official publication, states that "unauthorized possession or use of firearms, chemicals, drugs, White. McConnell are named to lead Student Council By TEDDY WELGOSS Tom White and Mike McConnell were officially pronounced president and vice-president of the Loyola Student Council for the 1968-69 school year. Mary Fiser, chairman of the SC Elections Committee, made the announcement at the council's regular Tuesday meeting. "The committee considered running an election and accepting write-in candidates," Miss Fiser said. "But the dangers of such a procedure far outweigh the merits. This is not the first time council officers have been appointed in this manner." Filing of candidates for Student Council representatives will be held March 11 and 12 in the SC office. Primary elections will be held March 25 and 26 and final elections April 1 and 2. A committee of three law students will be appointed to formally establish the criminal and civil procedure to be used by the Loyola judicial court. "The committee will merely streamline the Louisiana law procedure and make it available for students who are interested in the functioning of the court," siad Bernie Bagert, law school president. "Up until this time the court has had no set means of procedure, Bagert continued, "now the statutes, laws, acts and constitution will be put in writing and placed in the law library." The most recent activity of the judicial court has been the conviction and fining of students who have not paid their student council tax. An open public hearing will be conducted on a motion to increase the council tax from two to three Jollars. If passed, the motion will take effect during the 1968-69 school year. "Choice '68," a national collegiate election for the nation's president, will be sponsored by the council after national nominations. "The election will give the students a chance to participate in a large scale political activity," Fiser explained. "The election will be held simultaneously on numerous campuses throughout the country and all results will be tabulated at the election's national headquarters. The mock election is being sponsored nationally by Time Magazine. "What has the university speakers committee done by way of procuring speakers this year, and to what use have they applied the funds allotted them by the council?" These were two questions posed by A&S president Bob Dupont in moving that the committee submit a report of its activities to the council. The motion was passed and the request will be forwarded to the Rev. Henry Montecino, S.J., administrative head of the committee. An agenda of matters to be discussed at council meetings will be posted prior to the meetings. The posted topics will be the first to be discussed at future meetings. Sophomore representative Bill Guste will head a committee to investigate the possibilities of establishing a student bank at Loyola, the council announced. Tickets for the Loyola boat dance scheduled for 9 p.m. tonight will be sold at the dock. Tickets are $1.00 per couple with student I.D.'s. Non- Loyola couples will be charged $3.50. Some students to receive additional tuition cutback Some 60 Loyola students will be receiving additional money from the University when the fall semester begins, according to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The Rev. Bernard A. Tonnar, S.J., recently announced at the request of the Board of Directors that each of two or more dependents of the same parents will receive $200 per year remission beginning next fall. The increase doubles the $100 per year allowance that has been paid for the past seven years. The proposal for the change, which was initiated by Father Tonnar, was approved by the scholarship committee and the Board of Directors "unanimously," the dean said in a recent interview. "It was time to be more realistic, since tuition was rapidly rising," he said. Even though tuition has risen steadily from $350 per semester in 1961 to the $600 per semester now in effect, the remission until now, has remained at $50 per semester. "Something had to be done," Father Tonnar said. The remission program, he said, applies only to students of the same parents who are paying full-time tuition. "It doesn't apply to a son and parent, or a daughter and parent, or if one of the dependents is on a scholarship or in a work program," he said. Noting that the new policy would only double the remission while in the past seven years tuition has more than doubled. Father Tonnar said that "maybe more will be given as time goes on." However, the Vice President for Business and Finance, John L. Eckholdt, said that he did not anticipate any further increase in the remission in the near future. Both Eckholdt and Father Tonnar said there have been times when students who are eligible for the remission did not apply for the money. "They claimed that they knew nothing about the remission program," Father Tonnar said. "We hope that this will be corrected and that they will apply for the remission and save their fathers and mothers a little bundle." Each student, Eckholdt said, will receive a notice with mid-semester reports. "We want everyone to be aware of the remission," he said. Brother Clement new education head Replaces Rev. Tremonti Brother Clement Cosgrove, S.C., has been appointed chairman of the Department of Education, announced the Rev. Bernard A. Tonnar, S.J., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.Brother Cosgrove replaces the Rev. Joseph B. Tremonti, C.S.V., who has held the post since 1965. In a memo to the members of the faculty and administration of Loyola last week, the Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J., stated "Father Tremonti has now told me that he feels that the department has completed one phase of its development and that in the next phase the burden should be carried by other hands. "He wishes," Fr. Jolley added, "to be able to devote more time to his Reading Clinics and his personal research."Concerning his plans for the educationeducation department, Brother Cosgrove stated that it is "a little too early to say anything specific about expanding the existing programs and courses." "I have submitted plans to the administration of Loyola concerning the department, but I have received no word as yet as to whether or not they have been approved." He did not wish to comment on the nature of the plans which were submitted. Brother Cosgrove came to Loyola in 1964, after having served as a lectureer at Fordham University, New York University, and Spring Hill College in Mobile. He was a graduate of Loyola and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Fordham University. In 1966 he was named to "Who's Who in American Education." BROTHER CLEMENT Moves up in department (continued on page 3)

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LOYOLA MAROON Vol. XLIV Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Friday, March 8, 1968 No. 18 Ribicoff keynotes urban conference By STEVE VAKAS 'Cry of a city. The New Orleans Consortium will begin its Conference on Urban Affairs Sunday, March 31, when Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) is scheduled to deliver the key address in the Loyola Field House at 8 p.m. Entitled "Cry of the City," the conference is centered around urban problems in New Orleans. A facultystudent committee of the consortium, which represents Loyola, Xavier University and Dominican College, has also scheduled three other speakers. Saul Aulinsky (April 1,2), Vance Packard (April 3), and Flip Wilson (April 9) will also conduct seminars. Ribicoff is known for his constant battle for human rights. Since he entered the senate three years ago he has promoted the Ribicoff-Mills Mental Retardation Act, Ribicoff Pesticide Control Act and the Ribicoff- Roberts Clean Air Act. Ribicoff currently serves on the Senate Finance Committee and the Government Operations Committee. He was recently appointed chairman on the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization. For his distinguished record of public service, Ribicoff has been awarded honorary degrees from nineteen universities in the U.S. He graduated cum laude from the University of Chicago's School of Law. Aulinsky is a popular sociologist and criminologist at the University of Chicago. Helen Mervis, director of the consortium, says Aulinsky is an "urban organizer" who helps people in poverty areas form "pressure groups" such as Chicago's "Back of the Yard" program. Aulinsky will appear in Danna Center on Monday, April 1, in rooms 2D & E to conduct a seminar at 2:30 p.m. on target areas of poverty in New Orleans. On Wednesday, April 3, Vance Packard will appear at Dominican's gym to deliver his speech. Author of several best sellers, among his works are The Status Seekers, A former newspaperman and magazine writer, Packard received his master's degree from the graduate division of Columbia University's School of Journalism. Wilson is a veteran comedian who achieved fame after six appearances on NBC-TV's "Tonight" show. According to Mrs. Mervis, Wilson was contracted to appear for the consortium because he "relates to urban problems in a satirical way." Students from Loyola may attend the speeches by presenting their I.D. cards. Admission for non-consortium students and adults is $2.00. SEN. ABRAHAM RIBICOFF To speak on urban problems Mass media replaced social novel Aldridgc says John Aldridge, prominent essayist and novel critic addressed a group of Loyola students last week on "The Lives We Lead and the Books We Read: A Study of the Contemporary Novel." Aldridge spoke at length about the change the novel has undergone in the past few decades. "The novel in the last 30 years or so has ceased to be a form that has educated readers in new experiences," Aldridge said. Mass media, he said, make actual experience more and more difficult to get at. Television and especially films, are becoming substitutes for real life experiences. Thus, he continued, the writer loses the realities and experiences in society which used to be his material. "American novelists can no longer write social novels as the writers of the 1920's and 30's did," Aldridge said. Replacing the socially oriented novels of Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, he said, are the "black humor" writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote "Lolita," and Joseph Heller, author of "Catch 22." The move from the cities to the suburbs and dependence on the mass media are two of the factors Aldridge cited as being responsible for the change. "In the new suburban society," Aldridge said, "which is especially prevalent in the North and Midwest, people are becoming uniform. "So much of the vitality of human life has been concealed behind the facade of suburbia,"he continued. Resulting from this change we ultimately have a "homogenized society," Aldridge said. And within this society it becomes difficult for a writer to extract material for a novel. According to Aldridge, novelists must turn elsewhere for ways to deal with society, and the result has been the black humor novel in which society is made grotesque and social criticism is oblique. Possibly, Aldridge concluded, the black humor novel will help penetrate the fog created by the mass media and become more like the social novel.JOHN ALDRIDGE Evaluates contemporary novel Administration not surprised by arrests; watchful for developments in drug usage By FERREL GUILLORY The recent arrests of Loyola students on marijuana charges came as no surprise to university officials and to many students. However, university officials have expressed deep concern over the incidents. They are staying as informed as possible on all the cases and they are keeping a wary eye on the dormitories for any marijuana users. Mainly, university officials are keeping quiet. And so are most students. Since the recent arrests, questions concerning the incidents are received with little comment or no comment at all. But conversations with university officials and some students give some insight into the situation on campus. University officials feel that student marijuana users were more prevalent in the first semester than they are now. They attribute this to two reasons: the arrests have frightened many away from the drug and some of the ones arrested are suspected to be primary sellers. There were reports in the first semester of marijuana parties held by students in Audubon Park. Estimates of the number of students now using marijuana from university officials and students run from as high as 40 or SO to as little as a half dozen. University officials are inclined to put those using marijuana in three categories: 1) those using the drug for "kicks"; 2) those taking marijuana because they are depressed or having problems with school work; 3) those using it because they have become habituated to it. However, these officials feel that the amount of marijuana used on campus presently is not serious. One university official said that the general school policy for dismissing students who have been charged with a crime such as using marijuana is to take action once an indictment has been handed down. However, in one series of cases recently, the university dismissed a group of students immediately after they were arrested on marijuana charges. The university officials explained that they had sufficient evidence to warrant the action. The university handbook, the L Book which is an official publication, states that "unauthorized possession or use of firearms, chemicals, drugs, White. McConnell are named to lead Student Council By TEDDY WELGOSS Tom White and Mike McConnell were officially pronounced president and vice-president of the Loyola Student Council for the 1968-69 school year. Mary Fiser, chairman of the SC Elections Committee, made the announcement at the council's regular Tuesday meeting. "The committee considered running an election and accepting write-in candidates," Miss Fiser said. "But the dangers of such a procedure far outweigh the merits. This is not the first time council officers have been appointed in this manner." Filing of candidates for Student Council representatives will be held March 11 and 12 in the SC office. Primary elections will be held March 25 and 26 and final elections April 1 and 2. A committee of three law students will be appointed to formally establish the criminal and civil procedure to be used by the Loyola judicial court. "The committee will merely streamline the Louisiana law procedure and make it available for students who are interested in the functioning of the court," siad Bernie Bagert, law school president. "Up until this time the court has had no set means of procedure, Bagert continued, "now the statutes, laws, acts and constitution will be put in writing and placed in the law library." The most recent activity of the judicial court has been the conviction and fining of students who have not paid their student council tax. An open public hearing will be conducted on a motion to increase the council tax from two to three Jollars. If passed, the motion will take effect during the 1968-69 school year. "Choice '68," a national collegiate election for the nation's president, will be sponsored by the council after national nominations. "The election will give the students a chance to participate in a large scale political activity," Fiser explained. "The election will be held simultaneously on numerous campuses throughout the country and all results will be tabulated at the election's national headquarters. The mock election is being sponsored nationally by Time Magazine. "What has the university speakers committee done by way of procuring speakers this year, and to what use have they applied the funds allotted them by the council?" These were two questions posed by A&S president Bob Dupont in moving that the committee submit a report of its activities to the council. The motion was passed and the request will be forwarded to the Rev. Henry Montecino, S.J., administrative head of the committee. An agenda of matters to be discussed at council meetings will be posted prior to the meetings. The posted topics will be the first to be discussed at future meetings. Sophomore representative Bill Guste will head a committee to investigate the possibilities of establishing a student bank at Loyola, the council announced. Tickets for the Loyola boat dance scheduled for 9 p.m. tonight will be sold at the dock. Tickets are $1.00 per couple with student I.D.'s. Non- Loyola couples will be charged $3.50. Some students to receive additional tuition cutback Some 60 Loyola students will be receiving additional money from the University when the fall semester begins, according to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The Rev. Bernard A. Tonnar, S.J., recently announced at the request of the Board of Directors that each of two or more dependents of the same parents will receive $200 per year remission beginning next fall. The increase doubles the $100 per year allowance that has been paid for the past seven years. The proposal for the change, which was initiated by Father Tonnar, was approved by the scholarship committee and the Board of Directors "unanimously," the dean said in a recent interview. "It was time to be more realistic, since tuition was rapidly rising," he said. Even though tuition has risen steadily from $350 per semester in 1961 to the $600 per semester now in effect, the remission until now, has remained at $50 per semester. "Something had to be done," Father Tonnar said. The remission program, he said, applies only to students of the same parents who are paying full-time tuition. "It doesn't apply to a son and parent, or a daughter and parent, or if one of the dependents is on a scholarship or in a work program," he said. Noting that the new policy would only double the remission while in the past seven years tuition has more than doubled. Father Tonnar said that "maybe more will be given as time goes on." However, the Vice President for Business and Finance, John L. Eckholdt, said that he did not anticipate any further increase in the remission in the near future. Both Eckholdt and Father Tonnar said there have been times when students who are eligible for the remission did not apply for the money. "They claimed that they knew nothing about the remission program," Father Tonnar said. "We hope that this will be corrected and that they will apply for the remission and save their fathers and mothers a little bundle." Each student, Eckholdt said, will receive a notice with mid-semester reports. "We want everyone to be aware of the remission," he said. Brother Clement new education head Replaces Rev. Tremonti Brother Clement Cosgrove, S.C., has been appointed chairman of the Department of Education, announced the Rev. Bernard A. Tonnar, S.J., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.Brother Cosgrove replaces the Rev. Joseph B. Tremonti, C.S.V., who has held the post since 1965. In a memo to the members of the faculty and administration of Loyola last week, the Very Rev. President Homer R. Jolley, S.J., stated "Father Tremonti has now told me that he feels that the department has completed one phase of its development and that in the next phase the burden should be carried by other hands. "He wishes," Fr. Jolley added, "to be able to devote more time to his Reading Clinics and his personal research."Concerning his plans for the educationeducation department, Brother Cosgrove stated that it is "a little too early to say anything specific about expanding the existing programs and courses." "I have submitted plans to the administration of Loyola concerning the department, but I have received no word as yet as to whether or not they have been approved." He did not wish to comment on the nature of the plans which were submitted. Brother Cosgrove came to Loyola in 1964, after having served as a lectureer at Fordham University, New York University, and Spring Hill College in Mobile. He was a graduate of Loyola and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Fordham University. In 1966 he was named to "Who's Who in American Education." BROTHER CLEMENT Moves up in department (continued on page 3)